Bygones for Tuesday, March 19, 2013

By news@duluthnewstribune.com

March 18, 2013 at 11:00 PM

News Tribune, March 19, 1973

Militant Indians occupying Wounded Knee, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Reservation yesterday booed a new government proposal asking them to lay down their arms and submit peacefully to arrest. Leaders of the American Indian Movement have occupied the town since Feb. 27.

The general level of air pollution in Duluth during February rose slightly over January's mark. Results from the 11 sampling stations were higher than last month, but officials pointed out only four of them had exceeded air-quality standards.
News Tribune, March 19, 1993

Greg Braxton-Brown was named yesterday to the post of president of the Arrowhead Community College system. Braxton-Brown, who will oversee community colleges in Hibbing, Virginia, Grand Rapids, International Falls, Ely, Cloquet and Duluth, succeeds Phillip Anderson, who left in September.

The Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board announced yesterday that ownership of Virginia's Coates Hotel will be returned to the board. William Papaik of G&L Management bought the hotel from the board in 1990.
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Bygones for Tuesday, March 19, 2013

News Tribune, March 19, 1973 Militant Indians occupying Wounded Knee, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Reservation yesterday booed a new government proposal asking them to lay down their arms and submit peacefully to arrest. Leaders of the American Indian...